Turbine added to the Peerblock blacklist this week

[Ykt]

This just showed up on my Peerblock window:
"Turbine Entertainment Software - Blocked"

http://i.imgur.com/uIsW3Gh.png

Coincidence with Akamai now being used? :confused:

[realism]

Yep

[Bob_of_QF]

The Akamai software is truly insidious malware.

I elected to use a 3rd party launcher (DDO-ML) and then proceeded to uninstall Akamai.

The "uninstall" trundled a bit, and then declared it was complete.

About the **only** thing it did, was remove the little Akamai app from Control Panel (an app which did exactly **nothing**-- it lied. It stated the service was stopped, when in fact, it was running)

So "uninstall complete"? Yeah, right-- a check of the Akamai install folder? Still there.

A scan of Windows Registry? Many-many instances of Akamai.

The worst of all? A check of running processes in Windows Task Manager? Akamai client was still running-- two instances-- even after an uninstall!

This is beyond malware-- this is bordering on virus-like behavior. How many people did not double-check, as I did?

So, nuke from Task manager. Manually delete the folder & files.

Then a registry scan-and-purge.

Finally? Reboot...

... meh.

[vampiregoat69]

OK so now we have to have this **** in order to play *** can I get 300 more viruses to run? STOP IT NOW!!!!!!!

[Drwaz99]

Lol..wow.

History certain does seem to like to repeat itself with Turbine.

[Flavilandile]

That's interesting...

74.201.106.63 is clearly a Turbine server...
But it's not a server I remember :


74.201.106.53 Wayfinder [DE]
74.201.106.64 Ghallanda
74.201.106.56 Argonnessen
74.201.106.21 Thelanis
74.201.106.22 Sarlona
74.201.106.23 Khyber
74.201.106.59 Cannith
74.201.106.60 Orien
74.201.102.11 patch.ddo.com
74.201.102.121 www.ddo.com
74.201.102.13 gls.ddo.com


It's in the same range as the game servers so it might be Lammania. ( or the defunct Mournlands )

[SiliconScout]

My money is on Lammania